28 Nation States With Cyber Warfare Capabilities

The 2nd edition of Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping The Cyber Underworld will contain 4 new chapters plus a new Forward by former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and an Afterward by Professor Catherine Lotrionte of Georgetown University. One of those chapters is entitled "Cyber Warfare Capabilities By Nation State". For those of you who can't wait for the 2nd edition to come out, here are the 27 28* States:

1. Australia
2. Brazil
3. Canada
4. Czech Republic
5. Democratic People's Republic of Korea
6. Estonia
7. France
8. Germany
9. India
10. Iran
11. Israel
12. Italy
13. Kenya
14. Myanmar
15. Netherlands
16. Nigeria
17. Pakistan
18. Peoples Republic of China
19. Poland
20. Republic of China (Taiwan)
21. Republic of Korea
22. Russian Federation
23. Singapore
24. South Africa
25. Sweden
26. Turkey
27. United Kingdom
28. United States*

This is not a complete list, but it's a start. We may roll it over into an up-datable website and add the states that we missed for the book (e.g., all of the members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, additional states from Africa and South America, etc.)

* UPDATE: (29 Sep 2011) I left the U.S. off the original list because it's covered under one of the other new chapters! Sorry, everyone. :-D

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Huawei Investigated For Bribery in Obtaining Telekom Austria Contracts

Huawei's meteoric rise to one of the top three Information and Communication Technology (ICT) companies in the world is due in large part to its ability to undercut bids by other companies thanks to its status with the Chinese government as a "National Champion" firm. However, in the case of its sales to Telekom Austria (A1TA) between 2007 and 2009, it may also be due to bribery. An investigative report by FORMAT.at reveals that Huawei Austria's CEO signed an agreement to pay a ten percent "marketing fee" to Peter Hochegger, a former Austrian government lobbyist and PR consultant for all the A1TA business that he could deliver. Hochegger's influence and Huawei's money resulted in sales of over 130 million euros for the Chinese company, beating out regular Telecom Austria suppliers like Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks. According to an investigative report by FORMAT.at, once A1TA paid Huawei, Huawei Austria's CEO transferred 10% to a bank account (No: 155-40451-87448) at the Bank of Cyprus. The account belonged to Astropolis, a company owned by Hochegger and his associates. 


A1TA is now investigating all of its transactions with Huawei for possible criminal prosecution against the company. Not surprisingly, no one at Huawei is talking. The former head of Huawei Austria, Lu Hongwei has moved to the top position at Huawei Serbia and is "unavailable". Sun Zhengyang, his successor, has no comment. 


Sources:
Heise online 5 Apr 2011: http://bit.ly/e8keHk
TT.com 31 Mar 2011: http://bit.ly/fBZF75
Format.at 04 Apr 2011: http://bit.ly/i4Nu5f

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